The machine analyses scans of the back of your eye to accurately predict risk factors including age, blood pressure, and whether or not you smoke. It then uses this data to analyse your risk of suffering a life-threatening cardiac event, such as a heart

KentuckyOne Health encourages regular screenings to help detect heart disease, as well as lung cancer, early-on, because we know early detection goes a long way to enhancing treatment. While Kentuckians can find out about screening opportunities at all o

Representatives and volunteers from the American Heart Association and the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Cardiology joined Senator Ralph Alvarado, a physician from Winchester, in a Capitol rally Wednesday to urge the Kentucky General Assemb

Feb 15, 2018
NKyTribune (Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism)

clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or C.H.I.P... The mutations are acquired, not inherited — most likely by bad luck or exposure to toxins like cigarette smoke. But there is little that patients can do.

Mr Hoon picked up smoking at the age of 17, starting off as a casual smoker. But he stopped... When he moved to China for work, however, smoking became a heavy habit because “everybody smoked” there and cigarettes were “so cheap”.

Revealing she was ‘jump-started’ by doctors following heart surgery, the Bond girl said the incident made her quit smoking...she confessed that the surgery – which followed her becoming ‘seriously ill’ – was the deciding factor that encouraged her to sto